Kevin Owens successfully underwent neck surgery on Friday, beginning his road to recovery after getting pulled from action earlier this year.
Fightful Select reported Saturday that Owens had surgery earlier this week.
While Owens had been building to a Wrestlemania 41 feud against Randy Orton earlier this year, he announced in April that he had to withdraw from the card due to a neck issue which required surgery. He noted at the time that he was unsure when he would be able to wrestle again.
Few updates had come out regarding the injury since then, as Owens was in a waiting process before getting his surgery done. He explained on Cody Rhodes’ podcast a few weeks ago that they were only holding off surgery to give his spinal cord time to heal beforehand.
“How extensive the surgery will be depends on how my spinal cord looks when we go in there,” he said on the podcast.
During the appearance, he described how neck issues first popped up for him in January and eventually forced him to get completely pulled from in-ring action.
“The trauma happened in January,” Owens told Rhodes during his podcast appearance in late June. “Well, probably it was building up, right. But January was what really did it. Then we had this nice and easy ladder match where nothing crazy happened at all (Sarcastic). And, I kept going for a while. In the first week of April was when we had the MRI, and they were like, ‘Oh, guess what, you can’t even get hit. Don’t even get hit, you might die.’ So, everything took a turn. And now it’s been three months since then, since my last match.”
It remains unclear how long Owens could be out of action due to the injury. His current absence, going on more than three months, is the longest time away from the ring he has had since signing onto the WWE roster in 2014.
